Dreams v. Memory: Confusing truth and fiction

I have a horrible memory. It’s actually why I started taking pictures in the first place – as a reminder of places I’ve been. I’ve actually forgotten a lot of interesting places I’ve been to, until I came across a photo of the outing. So, what happens when you add a lot of travelling on top of that? Confusion, that’s what.

Memory

I woke up this morning with the memory of a dream of going on a nice hike. I’ve been on this hike lots of times before. It’s a long walk through the woods. At a fork in the path you can go one way to get to a waterfall, and the other way for a nice view of the valley. I thought to myself, ‘yeah, you know what? I’ve not been on a nice hike in a while, I should do that today if it’s nice!.’ I’ll get some great photos!

Dream

Then I thought to myself… ‘wait. Why don’t I have any photos of this spot already? It’s like my favourite spot.’ I mentally went through my Lightroom catalogue (I’ve been through the entire catalogue enough lately that I would remember a photo shoot here.) Nope. No photos. Huh. That’s weird. I can’t imagine that I wouldn’t have brought a camera at least once.

And, actually, where is the path? Is it even in Nova Scotia? Maybe it’s from my time in Germany. I was shooting film back then, and I was mostly just shooting on trips. But where we lived was flatter than Saskatchewan. My last thought was… Alberta? I was always in the woods back then.

Maybe… maybe I made it up? dammit. I really want to do that hike!

I’m 90% certain I made this place up and have dreamed about it many times. This annoys me… There’s still that 10% chance I’ll remember where it actually is though…

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I'm a photographer & traveller based in Nova Scotia, Canada. I also enjoy science and history. Add a bit of Star Wars and cross stitch and you pretty much know what you'll see here. At the moment, my focus is architectural and abstract photography, with some event photography thrown in. I've appeared in several exhibitions. I look forward to sharing my photography with you!